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project, as the two would reclaim a much 

 larger territory than either alone. 



"The outcome depends largely on the sen- 

 timent of the people, which, on the Owyhee, 

 is for private irrigation, and in other parts 

 of the territory emphatically for the Gov- 

 ernment project, as representing more per- 

 manent work." 



Governors Expected at Irrigation Congress 



It is expected that on Governors' Day, 

 August 13, chief executives will be in at- 

 tendance from Idaho, Oregon, Montana, 

 Utah, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Mis- 

 souri, New York, Kansas, Texas, New Mex- 

 ico, Kentucky, Florida, and other states. 



Mr. Arthur Hooker, Secretary of Board 

 of Control, is authority for the statement that 

 at least twenty-five governors and most of 

 the Western senators and congressmen will 

 attend the sessions in Spokane the second 

 week in August, when there will also be a 

 number of railroad presidents, financiers, and 

 experts who are interested in reclamation of 

 arid and swamp lands, forestry, deep water- 

 ways, good roads, and home building. He 

 says : 



"This congress will be of vital interest to 

 every state and territory in the Union, from 

 the fact that the objects to be discussed af- 

 fect them individually or collectively in one 

 way or another. The presence of the gov- 

 ernors and members of Congress in Spokane 

 during the week of August 9 will afford an 

 excellent opportunity for them to discuss 

 many things of mutual interest. The presence 

 of President Taft and members of his Cabi- 

 net at the irrigation congress will also influ- 

 ence a large gathering, and we look forward 

 to entertaining a large number of delegates 

 and visitors." 



Forestry in the Schools 



Forestry is attracting wide attention 

 among the schools of this country and Can- 

 ada. * * * The public-school teachers say 

 that they find in it a fascinating study for 

 children, and one which, by furnishing much 

 tangible material on which to work, de- 

 velops the child's observation. Although the 

 public schools of Iowa are in the vanguard 

 of the movement, Connecticut schools are not 

 so far behind, and as a text-book are using 

 several of the public documents issued by 

 the Forest Service, including Bulletin 173 

 as a primer of Forestry. Hartford (Conn.) 

 Times. 



Mr. Pinchot on Forestry in Arkansas 



At a reception in Washington of the Ar- 

 kansas Society to the Societies of the Missis- 

 sippi, Missouri and Texas, on June 7, Mr. 

 Pinchot said : 



"Everywhere we have found that the 

 Southern people appreciate and support the 

 fundamental principles of the Forest Service, 

 which is to put every piece of land to that 

 use in which it will best serve the interests 

 of the people of the country, whether that 

 be a forest use, an agricultural use, or any 

 other. 



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"The problems which these forests pre- 

 sent are in many respects different from 

 those of other National Forests. I do not, 

 however, anticipate any serious difficulty in 

 dealing with these conditions. The impor- 

 tant problems are those connected with 

 homestead and timber and stone entry, with 

 grazing, and with control of fires and the 

 related question of protecting the cattle from 

 ticks. 



"It has long been the habit of the Arkansas 

 people to set fire to the dry grass and brush 

 in these forests for the purpose of eradi- 

 cating these ticks, and it is not improbable 

 that the effort which the Forest Service has 

 made to prevent these fires altogether was 

 to some extent mistaken. A very_ careful 

 study of the whole situation is now in prog- 

 ress. The Service has a strong desire to 

 do justice to every man and to adapt its 

 methods of administration, in every point, 

 to local conditions. The support of the gen- 

 eral policy of the Service in Arkansas ap- 

 pears to be thoroughly well established, bur 

 certain points of friction still remain. These 

 we shall do our best to remove altogether 

 during the coming summer." 



The Moral Aspect of Forestry 



"Men do not go into the forestry pro- 

 fession to make money, to get rich, or to 

 have an easy thing of it," said Gifford 

 Pinchot, chief forester of the Government, 

 during a recent address. "They go into it 

 because they love hardiness, because they 

 love the real things of life, and because they 

 want to identify themselves with a move- 

 ment that benefits not only their own gen- 

 eration, but generations to come. 



"I have always held that a man cannot 

 be a good forester without being a good 

 citizen. He is working not merely for him- 

 self, or for his employer, or for his own 

 generation, but for people he will never see, 

 to better conditions he will never encounter. 

 The essential fabric of his whole aspiration 

 is foresight. And yet this quality of fore- 

 sight he must temper with deliberation, in 

 order that his results may fit conditions that 

 are more or less elastic. Plans that have 

 been made far in advance to fit a situa- 

 tion that ought, in the nature of things, to 

 exist, sometimes have to be revised because 

 that situation has unexpectedly changed. 



"The principle of 'best use' enters to an 

 important degree into the profession of for- 

 estry, by which is meant the using of a forest 

 so that each particular factor of which it is 



